Role: Contractor - Principal Design Engineer – Vehicle Design and Powertrain Integration

Location: Shoreham Technical Centre - Onsite 4 days per week

Role ID:2026-3398

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo’s A&I Division are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic Contractor - Principal Design Engineer, you will be a part of the Global Mechanical Design team responsible for leading activities in the design on Vehicle Engineering and Powertrain Integration

These vehicles cover a range of different applications including heavy duty vehicles and off-highway vehicles for defence and commercial applications where vehicles need tailoring to meet customer requirements. The approach to delivery needs to be pragmatic and agile whilst meeting demanding customer requirements for technical specification, timing, robustness and durability.

You will take responsibility for leading a team of mechanical designers to deliver the vehicle design from concept to definitive design. You will own and be technically responsible for engineering design content, quality and solutions.

You will need to manage and work effectively with other engineering disciplines such as CAE/Simulation teams, test and development teams, Programme Managers and Chief Engineers to develop solutions and implement designs, that satisfy component, system, product, and client requirements.

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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